Just after a bit of advice for using the DivX dvd element of authoring works, is there any particular difficulty to it? How many approx .avi files can fit onto a 4gb dvd disc? Also, is a menu still created? And lastly, are there any particular settings, be it file or tmpgenc, required for it to play in a conventional dvd player? (that supports divx playback)

Cheers if anyone can advise!

Creation is pretty much the same as a regular DVD; you can import the same types of files and Smart Rendering is supported if your files are already in the DivX format. The amount of content varies on what bitrate you choose, but since DivX has a higher compression rate than MPEG-2, you should be able to fit much more than a regular DVD would.
Menus can be created just like DVD menus, but your player must be DivX Ultra certified in order to see them--emphasis on the ULTRA. If it is just DivX certified, you can still play the videos, but you will not be able to see or use the menus.

Cheers for that, so lets say i create a dvd with a top menu, and subsequent links to the tracks (or movies) ive added into the project, if I were to play in a dvd player that has DivX and not DivX Ultra, would the result be that playback fails? Or would it just play each track one after the other with no control other than forward/rewind?

I can't remember exactly, but I think it will show a generic file menu where you can select which track to play...that probably varies from player to player, but I think it will treat each track as a separate DivX file. I can't remember if jumping to the next or previous chapter works either. My DivX Ultra player hasn't been working, so I can't make sure, but that's what I remember.

ok cheers tkrave, will give it a try and report back.

Last question on this one, was wondering about frame rates for a divx dvd, in that I have a number of files, some are 23 fps (NTSC) and some are 25 fps (PAL), should these always be kept seperate in a project or does it not matter for a divx dvd?

It shouldn't matter as they will be converted to whatever your output format is, so they can be in the same project. I would put them in separate tracks though.

So I tries this, and then played on two different mediums to test it, first I tried laptop with DIVX Player, worked fine, even the menu's I'd put on showed up which is good. Then I tried my blu ray player (DIVX compatible but not DIVX Ultra) and it didn't work properly. No menu comes up, it just plays the first track off the disc and then stops as if it had finished playing the disc..

Have you tried pressing the "menu" or "setup" buttons on your DVD remote? Even pushing the stop button might get you to the player-generated menu.
Or, maybe I was wrong; like I said, I was going on memory so it's possible I'm completely wrong about all of this.

Didnt try pressing setup, but did try pressing menu. The problem might be playing it on blu ray player, it seems to treat it as if it is a file from a usb stick, it goes to the file but only has the option to play. Will try another divx player if i can find one..

HI,
I have a dts audio file i need to use for my project.
But tmpeg X4 does not recognize this audio file to import.
Does anyone have sugestions on how i can use my dts audio file?

I am importing AVCHD video which was encoded/captured with H.264 at 11 mb/s 1080i through a Hauppauge HD PVR. This is live TV and what I want to do is edit the commercials out and create menus etc. and output (in AVCHD format if possible) to a 25 GB blue ray disk without re-encoding. (so I'll have about 4 hours of video on the disk). 1) Can I have TMP not re-encode? Even if I set the option to not encode in video properties, it still will. The file size is much larger and I have to manually change the mb/s to reduce the file size (the default shows at about 25 mb/sec and the file size at about 47 GB). So I have to tell it to re-encode at 11 mb/s when I'd prefer no re-encoding at all.
2) If I just import the video and then cut out the commercials in this program I get audio sync issues (randomly- not at all cuts) so I have to do my editing in another program and save it as an AVCHD and then import into TMP. The original file can be captured in either .TS or .M2TS format by the Hauppauge HD PVR. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Authoring Works 4 can't output in H.264, so that's why it's re-encoding everything. Since it outputs as MPEG-2, the bitrate increases to maintain quality since MPEG-2 isn't as good at compression as H.264.

When will Authoring Works 4 (or next version) be powered for H.264, i.e. _CAN_ output AVCHD H.264 including H.264 smart rendering? Is there a roadmap to H.264?

Hello, will you guys be willing to consider re-adding in the Manual IVTC operation of TMPGENC Plus 2.5 with Hybrid IVTC Support? By this I mean that, ok, for the pattern "10", all users of the TMPGenc Plus 2.5 Manual ivtc'er all knows that it refers to NTSC Video (30fps), so we can set 10 as (30fps), and for the standard patterns such as "1001001010", we can associate it as the standard "2:3/3:2 pulldown". This, for me and dozens of others, would be a big selling point. I don't really care for the conversion operations, i'm more into the IVTC aspect of the encoder, which always brings me back to tmpgenc plus 2.5.

Also, if you guys consider this, can you make it so that we can have the option to create a timecode file for the hybrid ivtc handling? I'd be willing to pay a lot of money for a program with an ivtc'er as good as the one in TMPGenc Plus 2.5 than can also handle hybrid material. Hell, i'd pay top dollar just for a program with the Ivtc'er alone. :)

fsfgh

My TMPEGExp quit working and will not open. This happened after I used DEP to open all files, then used it again to return to the original setting.
Anyone experienced something similar?

After creating a mp4 file, the mp4 doesn't start streaming until loaded.

I read you can use MP4Box or a similar tool to move the boxes to the beginning of the file.

Does XPress allow you to do something like this or do I have to use another tool??

Thanks.

Hi Guy,

is there anyone can help for me?

Can direct edit 1080i .ts files with the lastest version TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 ?

.ts video files form my set top box " MagicTV MTV-3000"

On TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 ,start new project > add file >

select a 1080i .ts video file , after that a window pop up say

" Could not open the video part of the file E:/test.ts

Could not open an audio only file "

i tried many different 1080i .ts file and it keep error , except 720i .ts video file.

is it TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 doesn't support 1080i .ts video file?

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Hello,

I bought TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress 2 yrs ago,wanna ask

Can TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress cut (.ts) 1080p video without re-encode?

Because i tired a software called "VideoReDo TVSuite4" can make it and quick.

What i want to do is...

Learn More About MPEG Video

Why is Native MPEG editing important to you?
MPEG is a highly compressed format. Most full-featured video editors like Premiere, Ulead, Avid, and Pinnacle convert MPEG files into uncompressed video for editing and then re-encode it when saving the edits. The result is that it can take hours to save your video rather than just minutes as it does with VideoReDo.

More importantly, each recoding results in a reduction of quality. With VideoReDo's perfected smart rendering technology you can edit again and again without degrading any of your precious videos.

Works with many formats
MPEG1, MPEG2, Transport Streams (.ts), Windows MCE DVRMS files, Siemens M740AV .CRID files, and Topfield .rec files. The result is that VideoReDo TVSuite works with the widest variety of TV PVR and DVR formats.

Nope. 4.0 XPress is a video converter, so it's main purpose is converting and re-encoding.

TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 and TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 have Smart Rendering which will allow you to edit MPEG video without re-encoding.

Thank for you information, it's useful.

well not true.

if you encode the end project as the original files then it should be using smart encoding, where it only encodes where it needs to.

What's not true?

4.0 XPress does not have smart rendering; you make it sound like it does.
Would it be awesome if it had it? Of course. However, it simply doesn't have it.

yep sory i was thinking of works 4.

I need to do a Bluray with the H264 codec! The H264 does not use TMPGEnc to Bluray! Does anyone know another encoder to show me? Adobe Encore I do not like! Does FFDSHOW do with Bluray H264? What preset to encode video with a Bluray H264 in FFDSHOW?
Thanks

I tried the new iPad profile. "High quality" settings result in 640x480 resolution - that's a joke right? You call that high quality?!

Looks like the High Quality profile is just a VGA profile...possibly just carried over from the iPod specs. Just create a custom profile to get the full 1024x786 resolution or even 1280x720 resolution. Just right-click on the "High Quality" box and select "Custom setting Wizard" to create your own settings.

Anyone have explanation of best settings to make DVD? Also , I make 1 DVD which works in DVD player and the next one I make comes out as movie and can only be played in a computer. What am I doing wrong? Can mpeg files be put into the authoring works or do they have to be m2v? I'm really confused. thanks

The default settings are pretty good as is, I think. If a DVD is working in your computer but not in your player, then it might be the DVD media itself. Or, if you changed the bitrate settings, the bitrate might be too high for the set-top player, but fine for the computer. Just my theories.

You can put in almost any kind of video file into Authoring Works; it doesn't have to be m2v. However, if you want Smart Rendering activated (no re-encoding on output), then they'll have to be some kind of MPEG-2 that is already compliant with your output format.

thanks - I'll check that out.

HI

I have a question, I-m working with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, I-m trasnforming a video (M2V File)in Progresive Method NTCS 29.97 FPS.

Can someone tell me how see if my M2V files are in DF or NDF (Drop Frame or Non Drop Frame)?????


Thanks